[H-GEN] HUMBUG cluster WAS Re: [HUM-TALKS] Talk / Demonstration of MOSIX

[Robert Stanford]

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On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:47, Andrew Pullin wrote:
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> Hi All,
>     I would be interested in "playing" with a Beowulf Cluster at meetings.
> As a suggestion - would it have to be very big? We could maybe just use 3-4
> machines from old hardware we have available instead of lots and have a
> power problem. The idea is to get a cluster to get the basics and the
> concepts right, the scaling and performance can come later.
> 
>     Another suggestion I have is we could advertise the meeting by doing a
> publicity stunt and build a cluster. I remember a few years ago when Beowulf
> was young about a Conference where someone did a demonstration by literally
> buying the book at lunchtime, making a phonecall to a hardware supplier,
> borrowing some hardware, and when it was delivered the next day, built the
> 315th fastest super computer in the world by mid afternoon and the cost was
> less than US$20000.
> 
>     We could do the same thing. How about do an installfest and ask a local
> supplier to loan us the hardware for a couple of days.

Crikeys, ill help that, I have access to heaps of machines, could
probably organise at least 30 if the cause is worth it.

 BTW is it arch specific?
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